TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of math - James Earle
What's so special about Leonard da Vinci's Vitruvian Man? With arms outstretched, the man fills the irreconcilable spaces of a circle and a square -- symbolizing the Renaissance-era belief in the mutable nature of humankind. James Earle...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Rusha Modi: What causes heartburn?
Humans have been battling heartburn for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. But recently the incidence has risen, making it a common complaint worldwide. What causes this problem, and how can it be stopped? Rusha Modi details the...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why people fall for misinformation | Joseph Isaac
In 1901, David Hänig published research that led to what we know today as the taste map: an illustration that divides the tongue into four separate areas. It has since been published in textbooks and newspapers. There is just one...
3Blue1Brown
Integration and the fundamental theorem of calculus | Chapter 8, Essence of calculus
What is integration? Why is it computed as the opposite of differentiation? What is the fundamental theorem of calculus?
SciShow
A Giant Underground Lake on Mars! | Breaking News
Scientists have discovered an underground lake of liquid water on Mars! While this isn’t itself evidence for life on Mars, it does raise some new possibilities.
TED Talks
TED: A hero of the Congo forest | Corneille Ewango
Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin -- and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, miners and raging civil wars.
SciShow
Counting Species out of Thin Air
Recent proof-of-concept studies showed that researchers were able to survey animals in an area simply by vacuuming up DNA in the air.
TED Talks
Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course
Shimon Schocken and Noam Nisan developed a curriculum for their students to build a computer, piece by piece. When they put the course online -- giving away the tools, simulators, chip specifications and other building blocks -- they...
TED Talks
P.J. Parmar: How doctors can help low-income patients (and still make a profit)
Modern American health care is defined by its high costs, high overhead and inaccessibility -- especially for low-income patients. What if we could redesign the system to serve the poor and still have doctors make money? In an...
Crash Course
What is Climate Change? Crash Course Geography
Today we’re going to talk about climate change which is when there is a change in the average weather patterns in a region over a long period of time - these changes can be natural or human-caused. We’ll discuss the main driving forces...
SciShow
Why Smoking Makes It Harder to Heal
If a doctor has told you to quit smoking, that's not just because they're worried about lung cancer. Those cigarettes are messing up your body's natural healing process in more ways than one.
TED Talks
TED: Fractals and the art of roughness | Benoit Mandelbrot
At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated.
SciShow
Poop: Our Newest Ally in the Fight Against COVID-19?
Right now, scientists need additional COVID-19 monitoring methods. And our poops might help!
SciShow
Archeology from Space: Mapping Tombs with Satellites
Sometimes, ancient ruins can be a little out of the way, but with some creativity, we can use satellites for those hard to reach areas.
SciShow
The 4 Most Irreplaceable Places
What's the awesomest place in the world? Scientists can think of at least 137, the newly released list of the most biologically important places on Earth. Hank explains how ecologists arrived at this list, and takes you on a tour of four...
Crash Course Kids
Gas Giants Weather
Last time, we learned that there is in fact weather on other planets. But those were the rocky planets, like Earth. What about the big Gas Giants? What's the weather like there? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us on a...
SciShow
3 of the Strangest Mountains in the Solar System
Our planet shares a lot with other rocky planets in our solar system, but astronomers have found a few mountains out there that are nothing like ours.
SciShow
6 Animals Living Their Best Lives in Cities | Synurbic Species
When humans build a city, most species in the area tend to disappear. But there are some, called synurbic species, that are living their best lives in our concrete jungles.
SciShow
Chemical Earmuffs: The Future of Hearing Protection? | SciShow News
A group of scientists this week has found a chemical trick that might one day help block the harmful effects of loud noises on our ears, and another has built an underwater robot to take a look underneath Thwaites glacier.
SciShow
The Cost of Saving a Drowning Town
This week, a group of scientists estimated the cost of saving just one small village in America’s Chesapeake Bay from rising sea levels, and another found evidence that Smilodon (aka the saber-toothed cat) actually helped take care of...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How we can detect pretty much anything | Hélène Morlon and Anna Papadopoulou
Scientists have been staking out a forest in Montana for an animal that's notoriously tricky to find. Camera traps haven't offered definitive evidence, and experts can't identify its tracks with certainty. But within the past decades,...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: If superpowers were real: Body mass - Joy Lin
What if manipulating body mass wasn't just the stuff of epic comic book stories? Is it scientifically possible to manipulate your body mass? In this series, Joy Lin tackles six superpowers and reveals just how scientifically realistic...
SciShow
An Unexpected Tool to Track Ancient Civilizations...Bacteria
Scientists have used a bacteria that commonly infects us to track how ancient humans spread to the Americas from Siberia. And other scientists have discovered a new species of hyrax in the forests of Africa by listening to their barks...